PITTSFIELD -- Skiers have enjoyed Bousquet Mountain ski area overlooking Pittsfield for 85 years and its current owner, despite putting the place up for sale, says she's committed to keeping the fun going .

"Our ultimate goal is to find a person or a group that would keep it as a family business," said owner Sherry Roberts on Friday. "I'm in no hurry."

But Roberts, 63, would like to retire. So after decades of informal attempts to sell Bousquet, she's formally put it on the market, listing it with StoneHouse Properties of Pittsfield for $3.2 million.

Roberts took over the 155-acre property as owner in 2012 following the death of her life companion and coworker at Bousquet, George Jervas.

Jervas, who'd bought the place in 1981, had been trying to sell it off-and-on since 2008. But he just couldn't find the right buyers for a business that meant a lot to him.

"It was his life. My commitment to George when he passed was that I would continue to run it as a ski area," she said. "My commitment is still there."

Bousquet Mountain is now more than a ski area with a water park, adventure park, go karts and climbing wall. A few years ago, Roberts put in an 18-hole disc golf course that's been written up in Yankee Magazine.

As for winter, Bousquet offers skiing on 23 downhill trails with three double chairlifts and two surface lifts. They also have downhill tubing.

"Business is good. The worst part about being in the winter sports business is being best friends with Mother Nature," Roberts said. "We are totally at her mercy."

So Friday was a good day.

"We had been looking a little bare," she said. "This storm was pennies from heaven."

Farmer Clarence Bousquet started letting tourists from New York City hike up his mountain and ski back down through his pasture in 1932.

Soon he built a rope tow and the railroads started offering ski trains to Pittsfield. The mountain is in the city limits and General Electric, a major employer, put up lights so employees could ski after dark.

In winter she has a staff of 150 or so. That dwindles to just 12 to 15 in summer.

Bousquet is the most recent historic area ski area to change hands.

The Springfield Ski Club sold the Blandford Ski Area in 2017 to to the owners of nearby Ski Butternut in Great Barrington. Those owners didn't open this winter because of the extensive repairs they need to do on the lifts at Blandford.